Braid – Kingship

The braid of Kingship as an Aka — the frequency of sovereign nobility recognized in others and gradually claimed in the self — inseparable from Right Use of Power, which is what distinguishes a King from a tyrant.

Stations: 1981’s “Chariots of Fire” — at Belmont Park with his father, recognizing that his father carried the Aka of the King; the felt reality of being a prince in New York City (“Prince of York” 1982, “Long Live the King”). The father’s death — the line from Dragonheart surfacing, the vow to become a greater king than his father, turning the 1981 recognition into an active quest to discover what a good king actually is and to meet many kings along the way (date TBD — needs its own RAW chapter). 2003’s “Kings & Heroes” — meeting Pierce Brosnan in the Kalalau Valley on his 50th birthday and recognizing him as an actual Bardic King, a noble of the Holy Wood rather than the Hollywood (“You don’t need any help” — “No, I don’t”). 2019’s “Haleakala — Dawn of the New World” — the king-in-shadow, the unnamed benefactor whose support demonstrated kingship exercised quietly, without need of story-credit. The braid traces the recognition of the King-frequency in the father, in the Bardic Kings met on the road, and in the shadow-kings who provide — all feeding the question of what right rulership actually is. Companion braid: Right Use of Power.

Constellation: The Round Table — Power & Sovereignty